What Would You Do? Part 3,749

As usual, when I'm confused or unsure what to do on the desk (because I'm only on it once in a blue moon) I turn to the good people of SportsJournalists.com for sound layout advice.

We're broadsheet, but we recently went down a size, so we're not huge. I have a strip ad/banner ad across the bottom of my sports front (shocking, I know!).

Anyway, we have two major beats in town. By that I mean, they're the teams that people turn to the paper to read about first. One is deemed "more important" by both the SE and ME (although, I don't buy it given attendance at games and feedback at the paper - but that's not my call). Both teams played today.

I have a killer photo from the "lesser" beat. And an average photo from the "big" beat. They are similar in shape (rectangular - neither truly vertical or horizontal).

Given that the "big" beat "should be above the fold," what the hell do I do? I can't run that story without a photo and I feel like I'm doing an injustice to the paper, my news judgement and photog by running the better photo smaller and below the fold!